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...take action. But it's not - we can't "wait and see" on global warming because the climate has a momentum all its own, and if we wait for decades to finally act to reduce carbon emissions, it could well be too late. Yet this simply isn't understood. Someone as smart as Bill Gates doesn't seem to get it. "Fortunately climate change, although it's a huge challenge, it's a challenge that happens over a long period of time," he said at a forum in Beijing last year. "You know, we have time to work...
...with its embrace of a range of technologies to reach various regions and audiences, has ensured that HSM's reach stretches far beyond America's shores. "It's genius," says Michael Gubbins, editor of Screen International, a London-based industry magazine, of Disney's HSM marketing strategy. "They've understood that TV is a way to get into people's heads, and that the Internet is a way to enrich that, and that cinema is a place to add to that excitement. It shows exactly the way franchises are going to be built in the future...
...Harvard students who had signed up to travel to Georgia and North Carolina may instead go on the group’s previously planned four-day trips to New Hampshire. Though Zafran said that the New Hampshire trip would be equally as beneficial for the campaign, he said he understood that some students would be disappointed by the cancellation. “I think that at the end of the day, the results are going to be just as great,” Zafran said. “It just won’t be quite as warm or adventurous...
...first task was to make sure that we carefully understood how the technology would be made available to different industries and how it delivers benefit in different applications,” said Stephen D. Saylor, the chief executive of SiOnyx, the start-up venture created to commercialize the innovation. “That was what the company was doing for the last year and a half...
...Black Watch soldiers don't hate war; they hate the war they've been thrust into, in which their traditions mean nothing, the enemy can't be understood, and--the final insult and the cause of much controversy in Scotland--their unit is broken up. "It takes 300 years to build an army that's admired and respected around the world," an officer says. "But it only takes two years pissing about in the desert in the biggest Western foreign policy disaster ever to f___ it up completely." The result, after an hour and 50 minutes with these proud, profane...